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smoothed down

smoothed down is the simple past and past participle of smooth down.

Meaning of smooth down

Verb

smooth down (third-person singular simple present smooths down, present participle smoothing down, simple past and past participle smoothed down)

  1. (idiomatic, transitive) To render smooth, to remove roughness from
    • She smoothed her nails down with a file.

Questions about smoothed down

What is smoothed down the simple past and past participle of?
Smoothed down is the simple past and past participle of smooth down.

Words near smoothed down in the dictionary

  1. smoothcap
  2. smoothcaps
  3. smoothe
  4. smoothed
  5. smoothed away
  6. smoothed down
  7. smoothed out
  8. smoothed over
  9. smoothed someone's feathers
  10. smoothed up
  11. smoothelin

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Adapted from Wiktionary: smoothed down (page history and authors); smooth down (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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